MSL Senior Methods 2012-2013 - Using and Teaching Poetry

This wiki page builds upon our work in class 11 with the Milners, Atwell, and Orr articles and provides resources for using poetry, as well as teaching it. It will also include our Model [[#|Poem]] Poetry Writing Activity Assignments.

POETRY RESOURCES

Poetry 180 (not just for high school)

"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins (poem addressing problematic way poetry gets taught at times)

How to Read A Poem Out Loud from Poetry 180 and Billy Collins

Library of Congress Poetry Resource Page

Poetry Daily

Web English Teacher: Poetry Section

The Poetry Corner: Group on The English Companion Ning

Magnetic Poetry and related sites: Magnetic Poetry Online Play Kits; Magnetic Poetry KIds' Poetry Page; Magnetic Poetry Home; Shocked Poetry; Poetry4Kids

OUR MODEL POEM POETRY WRITING ACTIVITY ASSIGNMENTS

Using the poetry writing activity [[#|completed]] in class 11 along with the [[#|packet]] of examples provided in class, post a link to [[#|your]] own poetry writing activity below. Include your name and the name of the poem prior to posting a link to your activity.

An example...

Hannah A.: Model Poetry Activity - "Private Edwin Jennison" by Barry Stagg - - - Putting a Name with the Face

Keep adding below...

"Robin O.: Model Poetry Activity - Traveling to the Homestead (activity title) created by Robin O.
Paige S.: Model Poetry Activity - Into Battle by: Julian Grenfell (Published Poem): My Battlefield (activity title)
Samantha M: Model Poetry Activity- Poets to Come by: Walt Whitman- A Poem for the Future
Brittany W: Model Poetry Activity- Risk Taking is Free by: Christina Henry
Kelsey B: Model Poetry Activity- Doing the right thing (Published Poem)
Jade G: Model Poetry Activity- Circle of Life by: Carly Nasch- Life's Growth and Changes
Blake G: Model Poetry Activity- African Praise Poems
Alex G: Model Poetry Activity- "The Wrong Side of the Cross" by Richard E. Hughes
Stephanie Snead.: Model Poetry Activity- I, Too, sing America by Langston Hughes
Kaitlyn Kelleher: Model Poetry - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
Michelle Parker: Model Poetry - Where I'm From by George Ella Lyon
Hailee Klauka: Model Poetry Activity- "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Mary Weeks: Model Poetry- Falling from a height, holding hands by Gary Snyder
Pryscilla Lee: Model Poetry- Women during the Industrial Period- Poem by [[#|Maya Angelou]] Phenomenal Woman
Stephanie Cogdill: Model Poetry Activity- "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Rachel McSwain: Model Poetry Activity - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
Amanda Moniz: Model Poetry Activity - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Stephanie Doss Model Poetry Activity - In Flanders Fields by Lt. John McCrae
Brittany J: Model Poetry activity- Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love by Tim Burton
Joshua Singer: Model Poetry Activity- Dystopia by Josh Gibbons
Tyler Clark: Model Poetry Activity - Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss
Stephanie Hairyes:Model Poetry Activity- "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe